From the main blog.
https://fakeologist.com/is-this-real-blood-and-guts
Can you get up off the ground if your throat is slashed or your carotid artery is severed? How much time do you have?
And thanks to eddy for this link, which is quite clear and doesn't have the blooper.
https://videos.marca.com/v/0_ol2gdp4e-g ... with-skate
Excluding the referee xileffilex mentions in his blog comment, there are only three people involved in the incident, therefore there's a fair chance most of the other players in the two teams weren't in on it, and possibly believe said player is dead.
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In the attack move there are two whites going forward and one red, the other red is a defender skating backwards and not part of the move. We've got the guy with the puck, and team mate to the side, and the red guy skating outside them, the red guy starts to cut in and looks to make contact with puck guy's team mate; and for no good reason does a dangerous high kick.
If we look at it in slow motion we see better what's going on. Puck guy is moving forward, and then for some reason turns in to the red guy. Meanwhile red guy makes contact with puck guy's team mate so he can use him to lift his leg up into a high kick. I would suggest that's an indication those two guys are colluding. But what we also see, puck guy has turned to face red guy and is leaning back and slowing before the red guy has his leg in the air.
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If we look at play, puck guy controls the puck pretty much up to the point of contact, but his team mate red guy used for the kick doesn't appear to have any interest in following where the puck is. On the other hand, a second red guy comes into the area and picks up the loose puck. I'm guessing he has no idea what's going on and is playing the game normally.
From the angle of the camera, it does look like red guy makes contact with puck guy's neck, but it's at the side, not front. And because puck guy is facing red guy when the kick happens, he can do that sideways backwards jerk that you see with a stage punch in the face.
It's the next part that proves it's staged. You can see the red guy is definitely using puck guy's team mate for balance as he throws his kick. I've got another gif, but it's not concerned with the kick in the neck, look instead at the two other guys. See how when the red guy gets up the other guy goes straight over to him and says something, confirming the collusion.
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Now let's look at the injury. So puck guy goes down and does something with his arm. As he gets back up something is left on the ice. He goes down again and attempts to put his knee on it, but misses, so he shuffles and puts both knees on it, we can guess popping it, and as he gets up we see "red blood" where it was.
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Stills of before and after.
And because that's the give away, MSM runs with this.
And then the guy that helps puck guy off the ice just happens to be the same team mate that was part of the kick incident. So like I say, only the three players involved in this move from start to finish.